Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering Alumni of the Year

Walter C. Vodrazka, Jr.
’95 BS Civil Engineering

Vodrazka is an arterial signal engineer and project engineer for the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada, which is the official administrator of the Freeway and Arterial System of Transportation, one of the country’s first Intelligent Transportation System organizations. He also serves as a practitioner advisor to the UNLV American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) student chapter. In 2015, he was awarded the “Engineer of the Year – Private Sector” distinction by the ASCE Southern Nevada branch.